Talk:Iain Crichton Smith

Untitled
I've extended this a bit - hope it's all suitable. Sources are from the two articles linked, mainly the Edwin Morgan one, and bibliography from http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~crumey/iain_crichton_smith.html --Doughnutraffler 12:22, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Free Presbyterian Church?
Can anybody confirm whether Iain Crichton Smith did in fact have a Free Presbyterian Church family background, or is this just an assumption that the Isle of Lewis' strict religious ethos came from the Free Presbyterian Church despite the fact that the main denominational influence in the island is/was the Free Church of Scotland, with the Free Presbyterian Church being in a small minority?--PeterR 15:24, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

My Last Duchess
Isn't My Last Duchess a poem by Robert Browning, not Iain Crichton Smith??

Distate for dogma
The article juxtapositions Crichton-Smith's distate for dogma with a comment about him being an atheist. This juxtaposition is disingenuous as it suggests that only atheists are non-dogmatic. This is clearly not true, see Stalin and Richard Dawkins as examples. Velkyal (talk) 09:31, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * This would only be an issue if it wasn't cogent with Crichton Smith's personal belief. He associated religion with dogma and so chose not to participate in it. It is, therefore, relevant regardless of the suggestion. Plus, I don't understand how Stalin was a dogmatic atheist. He certainly didn't do what he did in the name of atheism. Could you explain why you believe Richard Dawkins is dogmatic? He merely goes by his interpretation of material evidence. Kryters (talk) 21:01, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merge with The Telegram (short story)
notability + WP:SPINOUT (article sizes) Widefox ; talk 08:01, 17 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Support merge: article on story was created by an editor who has made no other edits and is likely to be a school student as the story appears to be on school syllabus, but it really doesn't seem notable. I cleaned it up after stub-sorting it, but would be happy to see it merged to the author's page - perhaps it does merit a mention, beyond the short story collection in which it appears. ... (pause to do some research and editing) ... I've just found the school syllabus listing, which includes 6 of ICS's stories, and added it to the article for the story - I think this merits inclusion in the author's article, as a level of recognition, so expect to see it when the articles are merged.  Pam  D  10:22, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

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